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Q&A: Joseph Lee on ‘Indigenous knowledge’ and covering adaptation to extreme weather

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Joseph Lee, an author and freelance journalist, is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe from Martha’s Vineyard in ...
Beyond Pesticides

On Indigenous Peoples Day, Highlighting Indigenous Knowledge To Address the Biodiversity Crisis

(Beyond Pesticides, October 9, 2023) On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the world turns its attention to the invaluable wisdom that Indigenous communities possess, highlighting their crucial role in ...
Outside

Paying Lip Service to Indigenous Knowledge Won’t Fix Climate Change

One summer afternoon when I was seven or eight years old, I went for a hike with my grandfather and uncle in the Chuska Mountains of Navajo Nation to search for medicinal plants for traditional ...
esa.org

Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding

In the field of ecology, researchers are interested in understanding the complexities and interactions of the many organisms that make up our environments. Over the past two decades, the knowledges of ...
Mongabay

Conservation tech without Indigenous knowledge and local context has limits (commentary)

Local and Indigenous communities can now track deforestation, monitor biodiversity and respond to threats on their territories quickly with tools like drones, GPS apps and satellite imagery. These are ...
Forbes

The Quiet Threat To Science Posed By ‘Indigenous Knowledge’

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Released in late 2022, the 46-page guidance document ...
The Business & Financial Times on MSN

Indigenous knowledge at the heart of wildlife education reform

The Director of the Rights of Nature Ghana Movement (RoNAG), Dr. Dickson Adom, is leading a groundbreaking initiative aimed ...
The Guardian

Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging

Researchers are weaving Native practices with western methods to revive ecosystems and reclaim food sovereignty “I’m a glorified clam counter.” So said Marco Hatch, a marine ecologist at Western ...
Hosted on MSN

Reassessing Indigenous knowledge

Nepal, July 29 -- On May 18, 2025, the Government of Nepal concluded its much-anticipated climate change conference by adopting a 25-point "Sagarmatha Call for Action." Point 20 of the declaration ...
The Conversation

Weaving Indigenous and western ways of knowing can help Canada achieve its biodiversity goals

The health of wildlife in Canada is socially, culturally and economically important to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. But in this time of heightened ecological threats, exacerbated by a ...
Managingip.com

Where are we in protecting Indigenous IP rights?

Lawyers at Allen & Overy discuss international and national efforts to protect traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions and why cultural misappropriation should be on brand owners’ ...